NTSC is a format.  It's a format with 525 lines per frame, using interlacing over two (2) fields per frame to display the information, with 29.97 frames per second.  Only 480 of these lines in each frame are visible.  SD-SDI (SMPTE 259M-C) is a format used to convey NTSC information with a digital signal, while digitizing ...

Hello.  Do you have a bootable XP CD for this CPU?  Are you able to successfully startup from said CD?  If so, I would agree that something is amiss with the hard drive, though it may not be bad blocks or sectors  It might be that whatever files the OS needs to continue loading after the screen where the bar goes from ...

[quote user="MediaDog"]But my engineer told me that for broadcast only HD can go out 16:9. That all SD commercials must be 4:3. Some one else told me that it all depends on the Station. I want to know for sure how to handle this. I have two questions: Is it possible to create a 16:9 SD show, mastered to Digibeta, for ...

Has the same item broken down more than once?  Let's say your console has a Panasonic BT-LH1700W (as an example).  Has this BT-LH1700W broken down, been repaired, and then broken down again?  If so, either the design (or the repair work) is flawed, or it is taking some sort of electrical surge/spike, or an environmental factor ...

[quote user="bneal"]A 75 Ohm RG-6 Cable is typically used for SDI SD and HD. Belden 1694 or the Plenimum version 1695 is widely used.[/quote] For plenum runs between our machine room and control room, I have been using Belden 1695.  I was ecstatic to see at NAB that Belden now has a plenum 1695 snake.  When I needed one last ...